The blog is back. And….with a new name! The old title of “Here Comes the Son…or Daughter” made more sense back in the day before we knew the gender of our little one. In keeping with the Beatles theme, the “Day in the Life” reference (with New added in) represents just that. This is a whole new life: Max’s life, our life as a couple, and our life as it relates to work, family, and friends. It’s crazy, busy, and rolls along faster than we can fathom. And thanks to our little boy, it’s a whole lot of fun!
So much has happened since our last update. I went back to work in late April, our moms took care of Max for three weeks at home, and then he started daycare in the middle of May. He has adjusted to daycare very well. As I mentioned in a previous post, it’s run by my good friend Kristin’s mom, Marilyn. Marilyn is a master…she has been doing in-home daycare since her own children were little and makes it look easy (even though it is very, very hard work!) She is organized, energetic, positive, has eyes in the back of her head, and she treats the children with such love and respect. As a result…that’s how the kids treat each other when they are at her house. Every day when I pick him up, he is smiley, clean, and content. I can tell he is being taken such good care of. This gives me huge peace of mind.
I cried the first day I left Max there because I was going to miss him so much. But I also felt good that he would be able to spend his days in such a safe and loving environment. The first couple of weeks Max spent at Marilyn’s house, Kristin and Mark’s daughter Alexis, who is three years old, asked everyone to call her Angie because she was Max’s mom. Since then, she has changed her name back to Alexis, but still keeps a careful eye on Max for me J. Her little sister Brooklyn is so sweet to him too. What a lucky little man he is!
Work has been going really well since I’ve been back. It’s already been two months! I do miss Max like crazy and find myself glancing over at his adorable picture on my desk more than a few times each day, but working again has proven to be a good balance for me as a person and as a mom. A little bit of adult interaction each day goes a long way! I’m lucky to work with a great group of people too. Just a couple of weeks after I went back, Max started sleeping through the night which made the transition even easier. I almost hate to say that because I don’t want to jinx our good luck. Only a couple months before he starts teething though, and then we’ll see if we’re still feeling lucky…J
Lucky. Nate and I talk all the time about how lucky we are to have Max. We are lucky that he is happy, healthy, thriving and growing. We are lucky that we get to spend every day with a wonderful little person who, at such a young age, reciprocates love so effortlessly and makes all of the hard work seem like no work at all. Don’t get me wrong, we have had our share of sleepless nights, new-parent anxiety, and a plethora of emotional ups and downs that come with such a huge life change. But…the rewards of having Max in our lives far outweigh the challenges of adjusting to being a new mommy and daddy. We are learning as we go.
Max is changing in leaps and bounds. His favorite activities include laughing at his dad, shoving stuff into his mouth, and performing baby yoga during diaper changes (picture an arched back, stomping feet, and flailing arms – what’s that pose called?) At his four month appointment, he weighed over 15 pounds which is 50th percentile for weight, up from 6 pounds and 5th percentile at birth. Oh, and he’s also working hard on sprouting some new hair. Dark hair! There might be a little bit of me in there after all. Up until now, he has been all Dad in terms of his good looks.
Last week, he started rolling over. It happened in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm, and I assume the noise woke him up. Being the considerate young man that he is, he decided not to cry…but instead to work on reaching an age-appropriate milestone. Once he got over onto his tummy, he decided to cry for joy, I think. So then I woke up, saw what Max had done, called Nate to take a look, flipped him back over and off to sleep he went.
In addition to all of the changes with Max and me, Nate also started a new position at Best Buy in May. It’s on the dot.com side of the business and is luckily a fast-growing area of the company. In addition to being a new dad, he’s also learning a new job. Minus the exhaustion, I think he loves every minute! The days in this life fly by, so I apologize for my long absence from this blog. I’m going to try to write a new post at least every couple of weeks going forward to keep everyone up to date and also use it as a modern-day baby book of sorts. Lots of pictures to come, I promise!! For now, I’ll leave you with this cuteness…
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